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  • As a Wikipedia editor I can comfirm - we regularly say that napalm sticking to objects in water is POV. I do it at least twice a week. I'll try making a bot to do it automatically so I'll have more time for holocaust denial.

  • You can check old versions of any article by clicking 'history'. And yeah, the standards used to be pretty low.

  • The problem might be that Google will argue this isn't a downgrade at all, but an upgrade (for "security" reasons). I don't want to be a pessimist, but the tech illiterate judges could eat that up.

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  • :3

  • Lemmy is developed by two (2) people and asking for one of them to leave is effectively just killing the project. If you don't like it, you can move to an alternative such as PieFed.

    Personally, I can't make myself care about this too much. It's a doshit take (somewhat understandable considering the guy's background), but it was publicised over a year ago, he hasn't said this sort of crap since then*, and Dessalines' whiteknighting for Russia is IMO way more of an issue morally and politically. But at the end of the day the question is whether Lemmy works fine for you or not and whether the admins' opinions harm your experience. I don't think they do, Dessalines bans criticism on his turf but it's just a handful of communities, while the devs are still providing the infrastructure for diametrically opposed views and communities.

    *edit 5 days later: apparently he has posted this quasi-apology in the meantime

  • This is just avoiding the issue of having a short attention span.

    I used to be easily distracted during online lectures yet had little difficulty following live lectures. It's a fundamentally different experience, for whatever reason.

    Also, the attention span has to be trained. And training it by working without a distracting computer sounds like a good idea.

  • With all due respect to Guido, creating software does not have the same weight and responsibilities as leading a country.

  • No, because "benevolent dictatorship" can't exist (the only benevolent action of such a dictatorship would be self-abolishment).

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  • I have no idea what "classic literature" this refers to?

  • Looks like they've decided against inclusion. It's also unlikely the video meets "fair use" standards so they'd have to delete it anyway...

  • They had a whole edit war about whether it should be included and locked the article.

  • Kirk's killer seems to have used some large calibre weapon which probably made it look so particularly brutal and bloody.

  • So... the impact will be gligible?

  • You wouldn't, by any chance, provide examples of that censorship and how it can be traced to FBI/CIA?

  • Sure, but the duration of the ownership doesn't matter a whole lot in this sort of situation. If you've missed the news about the selling when it happened, it's relatively unlikely you'll learn about it afterwards. I don't periodically do a background check of all the devs and owners of my apps.

  • Reminds me of how after WW2 people stopped calling their kids Adolf or even changed their name Adolf into something else. I mean, I'm not saying Zuckerberg is literally Hitler or something, but it sure is funnily similar.

  • I'm on Facebook because many people I communicate or work with and pages and groups relevant to my interests are active there.